Noa Yanai, a student at the academy, said that planting these trees at the place where the rockets fell gives them a sense of permanence in the area.

“In a place where the rocket fell, evil is created. We are conveying a message that something good is growing within this evil,” she said.

Academy head Rabbi Yaniv Mezuman quoted the famous protector of children during the Holocaust, Janusz Korczak, intoning, “He who cares for days, sows wheat. He who cares for years, plants trees. But he who cares for generations, educates people.”